What is StEP?
StEP is a comprehensive online legal careers programme containing a range of resources from written advice and online workshops to practical activities and useful weblinks. The programme consists of 10 Steps:
- Step 1: Understanding the legal market
An overview of the legal profession, looking at the different areas of practice,
what solicitors and barristers do and what type of lawyer you want to be.
- Step 2: Assessing your employability
What does it take to be a lawyer? What are recruiters looking for, and
have you got the experience and skills they want?
- Step 3: Planning your legal career
With long recruitment cycles and significant competition for graduate roles,
planning is essential to career success.
- Step 4: Researching legal recruiters
A look at why research is so fundamental at all stages of the recruitment process and
how research can help you find vacancies and opportunities within the legal market.
- Step 5: Gaining experience and making contact
Legal work, a broad base of experience and the ability to network are all important
for those pursuing a career in the legal profession. Step 5 helps you identify
opportunities and make the most of them.
- Step 6: Writing legal CVs and covering letters
Despite the widespread use of application forms, the CV is still a vital tool in the
recruitment process. Step 6 guides you through the process of constructing a
legal CV and writing a successful covering letter.
- Step 7: Completing application forms
Step 7 looks at completing application forms in legal recruitment: from the different
questions asked to how you draw on personal experience to provide evidence for
your answers.
- Step 8: Preparing for interviews
Step 8 looks at how you can prepare for interviews to maximise your chances of
success, looking at the different question you may be asked and the different
styles of questioning used.
- Step 9: Preparing for assessments
From letter writing to advocacy exercises, assessments are common in legal
recruitment. In Step 9 we look at what could you be asked to do, and how you
should prepare?
- Step 10: Managing your career
Whether you’ve secured a training contract or pupillage, or whether you’re still
looking for your first legal role, Step 10 looks at the options available and
the steps you can take to achieve your ambitions.